Slung-shot.



PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907.

J. B. SWIBBTSER'. SLUNG sHoT. APPLITION FILED 00T. 6,1906.

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A TTORNE YS 'JEWETT B. SWEETSER, OF DANVERS, MASSACHSETTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 15, 1907.

Application filed October 6,1906. gerial No. 337.797.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J EwET'r B. SwEE'rsER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danvers, in the county of EsseX and State of Massachusetts, have lnvented a new and useful Slung-Shot, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to slung-shots.

The objects prove and simplify the construction of such devices; furthermore, to increase their efficiency in use and to decrease the expense attending their manufacture.

With the foregoing and Other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of the Jfollowing claim without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a slung-shot constructed in acoordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the missileholder, and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are side elevations of .modified constructions.

Like reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

The mproved slung-shot of this invention is constructed with a handle 1, on which is a spring 2. The spring 2 may be either straight, as shown in Fig.l 6, or coiled in various different ways, as shown in Figs. 1, 3 4, and 5. The straight or uncoiled portion of the spring 2- in each form of the invention preferably is disposedin alinement with the handle, as shown. At its upper end the spring 2 preferably is formed with a flattened point 3, which is embedded in a missile-holder 4, formed of Wood, rubber, or other material suitable for the purose. The missile-holder 4, at the forward end thereof, is approximately cup-shaped and is formed with a cone-shaped socket 5. At

its rear end the missile-holder 4 is provided with a finger-piece 6, the rear end 7 of which is suitably enlarged, so as to adapt the finger-piece to be firmly held between the thumb and forefinger.

In using the device the handle 1 preferahly is grasped in the right hand and a missile-such, for example, as a marble or bulof the invention are to imlet-is placed in 'the cone-shaped socket 5.

The finger-piece 6 is grasped between the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, and the spring 2 is flexed rearwardly to the desired extent, after which the finger-piece 6 is released, so as to perrnit the spring 2 to throw the missile forward.

The cone-shaped socket 5 is a peculiarlyvaluable feature of' the missile-holder 4 in that the tapering wall of said socket is adapted to exert a certain amount of friction upon a marble orbullet when the same is forced into the socket, and this frictional grip is suffic-ient to hold the missile properly in the socket while the spring is flexed without being sufiicient to retard or prevent the missile from leaving the socket when the fingerpiece 6 is released.

The improved device 'of the present invention is strong, simple, durable, and ineXpensive in construction as well as thoroughly efficient in use.

What ls claimed is- A slung-shot comprising a handle, a spring having 'straight portions arranged in alinement with the handle, the outer end of' said spring being flattened, a missile-holder fitted on the flattened end of said spring and having a cone-shaped socket adapted to eXert slight friction upon a missile placed therein, and a finger-piece connected with said missile-holder and having an enlarged rear end adapted to be grasped between the thumb and forefinger.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JEWETT B. SWEETSER.

Witnesses: CUsTis Roon, CHAs. N. WEDGwooD. 

